Those who want you to doubt that anarchy (self ownership and individual responsibility) is the best, most moral, and ethical way to live among others are asking you to accept that theft, aggression, superstition, and slavery are perhaps better.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

"Tax"-addict trolls?

A few days ago I got into a discussion with someone online. Shocking! I know. Anyway, the subject was originally "border control" and "immigration", but when I asked a couple of test questions about that I got a bizarre response that went on about tariffs and such. I suggested the person was talking about slavery (importing people) rather than about immigration control. And then I got the response I reproduce here, along with my replies.

"You are taxed based upon the annual value of your work (just as a simple example). You, I, and everyone are nothing more than a commodity." To whom? Those who believe they are owed something for nothing- a "piece of the action" for their protection racket. When forced to do work, where someone else takes a percentage between 0% and 100% of your labor/time/money, you are a slave. It's not a matter of not being a slave to someone else until the percentage stolen from you reaches some magical percentage. And, yes, "taxation" IS theft. Nothing else.

"Human Labor is a commodity." Yes. And it belongs to the person who labors, no one else.

"You mistake that for slavery." I'm not the one making the mistake here.

"I assure you that is not the case." You can "assure" me all day. You are wrong, either unwittingly, or you are lying.

"Anytime you work for money, you are selling yourself for a set time at a certain price." Yes. And that is fine as long as it is mutually consensual.

"Looking at the movement of people between nations is just as taxable and prohibit-able as the importing of certain goods and services." Just because thieves and thugs can get away with committing an act doesn't make it right. It's like claiming that babies are just as rapable as grown women. Theft is theft; slavery is slavery; wrong is wrong- and dressing them up in fancy StateSpeak doesn't change the foundational truth of the acts you are advocating.

I have heard that "government" agencies employ trolls to try to attempt to put a positive spin on the disgusting things done by various "government" goons. Hmmm.

Seriously, don't you think this guy sounds like a paid shill for The State?

2 comments:

Fascinating discussion. It says much about our country that, in spite of its problems and faults, the two of you could disagree so dramatically yet have no ill will towards each other. That's often impossible in other parts of the world.

Hawk, 95% of your friends and neighbors are shills for the state in one form or another. Well, I'm not certain about 95% -- but it's a very high segment. (It's said that 63.8% of all statistics are determined at the spur of the moment. That's how mine generally work out, I'm 'feard. "Statistics 101").